In defense of the maximum entropy inference process

DOI10.1016/S0888-613X(97)00014-5zbMath0939.68118MaRDI QIDQ1809364

Alena Vencovská, Jeffrey Bruce Paris

Publication date: 20 December 1999

Published in: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

probabilistic knowledge bases; inference process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

03B48: Probability and inductive logic

68T30: Knowledge representation

68T37: Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence

60A99: Foundations of probability theory

94A17: Measures of information, entropy

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